Provisional programme for:
Hemispheres
Aistriú; Atlantic and Pacific; brains; cells and nuclei; containers and contained; cosmogonies;cosmopolitics; day and night; East and West, North and South;eggs; eyes, breasts, halves; holes and hollows; imagined geographies; invisible opposites; male and female; meridians; mountains; music of the spheres; orbits; planets; reflections and mirrors; sets and
boundaries; sun and moon; topography; translations, traductions, transpositions; yin and yang.
We aim to discuss aspects of the topic Hemispheres in relation to all forms of cultural practice aesthetic, literary, cinematic, iconic, theatrical in the forum of this interdisciplinary and international conference to be held in University College Cork, Ireland on 3-5 May 2002 with scholars and critics working on literature, thought, music, film and the visual arts.
Dr A.M.T. Ryan Agrégée de l'Université
Department of French
University College Cork
Ireland telephone: +353 21 490 2579
facsimile: +353 21 490 3284
email: ar@ucc.ie
Dr Mark Chu
Department of Italian
University College Cork
Ireland
telephone: +353 21 490 2486
facsimile: +353 21 490 3263
email: MChu@italian.ucc.ie
XI Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts organized by the School of Language and Literature, University College Cork
with the generous support of the Faculty of Arts, UCC
Please bring this to the attention of any colleague you think might be interested.
Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts
for information on accommodation and other details. Venues to be confirmed.
Provisional programme:
Friday 3rd May 2002 at 14.00 Opening
Professor Peter Woodman, Dean of Arts, UCC
Friday 3rd May 2002 14.30-16.00 Session 1a Orbs, reflections, mirrors
Dr Angela Ryan Department of French, UCC
Two Better Hemispheres: Barthesian Orbs and Images in Donnes The Good-Morrow, Bonnefoys Le Miroir courbe and van Eycks The Arnolfini Wedding
Dr Graham Allen Department of English, UCC
Us Ghosts: The Hemispheroidal University and the Triumph of Transparency
Friday 3rd May 2002 14.30-16.00 Session 1b Containers and contained
Ilaria de Seta Department of Italian, UCC
Containers and Contained in Italo Svevos Writing
David Best Department of Italian, UCC
Paolo Volponis Psychological Landscapes: from Rural Topography to Mental Space in La macchina mondiale
Friday 3rd May 2002 16.30-18.00 Session 2a Invisible opposites
Dr John Scaggs English Department, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Whatever Dies Was Not Mixed Equally: Deconstructing Unity in Revenge Narratives
Dr Birgit Haas Department of German, University of Bristol
Wessi meets Ossi, or the Wall inside the Head: the Clash of East and West Germans in post-Reunification Drama
Friday 3rd May 2002 16.30-18.00 Session 2b Atlantic and Pacific
Dr Bill Marshall Department of French, University of Glasgow
The French Atlantic
Professor Juliette Rogers University of New Hampshire
East meets West: Francophone Bildungsroman in China
Friday 3rd May 2002 18.30-19.30 Session 3 Music of the Spheres
Professor Des MacHale Department of Mathematics, UCC
Music of the Hemispheres: Boolean Bipolarities
Saturday 4th May 2002 9.30-11.00 Session 4 Cosmogonies, boundaries
Thom Moore Irish Translators and Interpreters Association
Heavens Above: Hemispheres of Rulership and the Dead Weight of Symbolism
Hugh Cronin Department of French, UCC
Butlers Exclusive Disjunction and Bourdieus Rite dinstitution
Saturday 4th May 2002 11.30-13.00 Session 5a East and West
Dr John Balcom Monterey Institute of International Studies, California
East-West-West-East: Translation and Hemispheric Merging
Dr Mark Chu Department of Italian, UCC
Orientalism - Italian Style: Representations of Chinese Immigrants in Carlo Lucarellis Febbre gialla
Saturday 4th May 2002 11.30-13.00 Session 5b North and South
Professor David Mackenzie Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC
Tortilla Espanola: Moors and Christians in medieval Iberia
Dr Rachel Langford Cardiff University
Re-imagined Geographies: the Spaces of Francophone African Film and Literature between Colonisation and Globalisation
Saturday 4th May 2002 14.30-16.00 Session 6a Eyes, halves
Dr Mary Noonan Department of French, UCC
Breaking the Mirror: The Struggle for Release from Gendered Poesis in the Theatre of Marguerite Duras.
Dr Mary Breen Department of English, UCC
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Saturday 4th May 2002 14.30-16.00 Session 6b Transpositions
Dr Toby Garfitt Magdalen College, Oxford
Holding Together: Jean Grenier between écartèlement and union
Dr Gert Hofmann Department of German, UCC
The Self and the Other: Poetry as Quotation
Saturday 4th May 2002 16.30-18.30 Session 7a Holes and hollows
Dr Massimo Leone University of Siena
Marine Hemispheres: Some Semiotic Notes on Seashells
Dr Norbert Kelvin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC
Beauty and Power in Music - The Pipe Organ The Musical Instrument of Opposites
Saturday 4th May 2002 16.30-18.30 Session 7b Eggs, cells, nuclei
Lori Parks Department of French, University of Reading
The Desirable Body: Identity and the Internal and External Body
Tom Quinn Dublin City University
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Female: Degradation and Exaltation of Woman in Louis-Ferdinand Célines Voyage au bout de la nuit.
Saturday 4th May 2002 18.30-19.30 Session 8 Female and male
Professor Naomi Segal Department of French, University of Reading
Then some had rather it were She than I: sexing the textual body
Sunday 5th May 2002 10.00-11.30 Session 9a Imagined geographies
Dermot Fagan Department of French, UCD
Maurice Blanchot and the unimaginable geography of Auschwitz
Marco Sonzogni University College, Dublin
Real and Imagined Geographies: Montale's New York
Sunday 5th May 2002 10.00-11.00 Session 9b Female and male
Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir Department of English, UCC
European and Post-colonial Reception of 19th century Irish Novels: Edgeworth and Morgan
Eamon Maher Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin
Circles and Circularity in the Writings of John McGahern
Sunday 5th May 2002 12.00-13.30 Session 10 Yin and yang
Dr Adam Curtis Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC
(Re)-joining the hemispheres: addressing the mind/body split through holistic actor training
followed by a performance.
Granary Theatre, Mardyke, Cork.
13.30 Closing.